JUST DIE.
Posted on 01/29/2016 1:01:52 PM PST by 20yearsofinternet
Nothing like Donald Trump has ever hit a major American political party: A blow-dried celebrity gleefully smashing one modern Republican certainty after the other. As he defies his own party on tax orthodoxy, on healthcare and on bending a knee to Roger Ailes, he's exposed the GOP establishment as virtually powerless over its own nominating process.
His rise has now created a split so deep that it's not clear how the party is going to recover. Some conservatives are trying to crush his candidacy, others are finally embracing him, and they're all lobbing grenades at each other. So is this the end of the GOP as we know it? And what's next?
National Interest editor Jacob Heilbrunn sees Trump's disruption as just the reboot the party needs; Republican strategist Rick Wilson sees a possible "murder-suicide" between Trump and Cruz that opens the door for moderates. Former Senate operative Jim Manley sees a party civil war that will sow chaos far beyond the GOP.
Here, for Politico Magazine, 12 political gurus put their minds to the most unexpectedly urgent big-picture question in American politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
This is mostly lickspittle GOPe rationalizing and bargaining, but it's a bit more interesting and nuanced than the "Against Trump" NRO edition.
Nah. Not yet. He still stabbing away, though.
But will he kill the Uniparty?
We should be so lucky!
The career lawyers/politicians in the GOP destroyed the GOP.
The GOP killed themselves.
Too much credit being given to Trump, the GOP has been an active suicide for years.
The GOP inflicted its own mortal wounds long ago. Next question.
That would be too good to be true.
No. Trump merely found the body.
I SURE HOPE HE HAS..!
The GOP **LIKED** that the Tea Party was audited.
THEY LIKED IT.
They helped it.
They’re against America —they are the Vichy French.
Yes, and the country, too, as Hillary ascends to the presidency.
I heard somebody killed Politico.
Not quite yet, but hopefully soon!
JUST DIE.
Ditto. GOP killed GOP.
Excellent!
New 2nd party....either TEA Party or CONREP Party....
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